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Course 5 Final Project. Check!

May 4, 2013
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Phew. It’s done. My Course 5 Final video presentation has been submitted. I chose to look at how instant video feedback can help student performance improve in PE. I used the Ubersense video analysis iPad app to record students’ performances. There were many teething problems with the videoing and time management along the way, but…

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Time Managment with Mobile Devices

April 25, 2013
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Some rants as I finish up my Coetail Course 5 project…. I am using ipads in my PE classes so that students can record each other performing and then offer instant visual and verbal feedback to each other. The concept is great and the results…

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Digital Natives Amaze Me

March 5, 2013
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The phrase Digital Natives is a funny term. Sometimes I just pass it off as a new trendy word and think that I am pretty tech savvy too……I could take them! But every day I see more and more conclusive evidence that the kids of…

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Course 4 Final Project

December 16, 2012
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Course 4 Final Project

For my Course 5 project, I plan to use Video analysis in my Grade 6 or 7 PE Softball class. I have 3 options around this central idea: I do…

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Attention Please

December 16, 2012
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Attention Please

I teach Grade 6 and 7 Robotics so laptops are always in the room, along with a bunch of Mindstorm Robots. It’s my first year teaching Robotics so I have…

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The Future of Learning

December 11, 2012
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The Future of Learning

Funnily enough I had a conversation about MOOCs today, although I had not done these readings and therefore did not not refer to them as “MOOCS”. An ex-principal from my…

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